for your enjoyment, a cut-and-paste from interesting-people.org. it could've been written by bonzo, but wasn't.
>>This is a post from a CNN message board: Orion Ramsey - Friday,>>09/21/01, 2:35:00pm (#58980 of 58989)>>>>To those extremists that perpetrated this crime against our nation, I>>have a warning for you. There are those of us who look at your>>actions as irrational, twisted, and completely inhuman. By all>>measures, what you have done can only be seen as insane. I have news>>for you. We're more nuts than you, and it should scare you s***less.>>>>You may think that when you die for your cause, you go to Paradise>>with 72 virgins, can leave reservations for 70 members of your>>family, all your sins are forgiven, and you sit at the side of Allah.>>Big deal. We had 39 guys who rented a Beverly Hills mansion, cut>>off their nuts, built a web site, and proceeded to poison themselves>>to death to hitch a ride with aliens out on the Hale-Bopp comet.>>>>You shoot guns into the sky to celebrate victories over enemies, and>>people are killed by the bullets raining down on them. We not only do>>this for New Year's Eve in some cities, but we burn houses down, tear>>up streets, loot and sack our stores, and beat ourselves senseless>>when our sports teams win championships.>>>>Sports teams! We made a sequel to Police Academy 5. We gave an award>>for singing to two guys who never even sang. We put little sweaters on>>dogs. We shot John Lennon six times and didn't even aim for Yoko Ono.>>We think Elvis is still alive. We put Braille on drive-up automatic>>teller machines. We think that a simple button on a web site that says>>"Do not click if you're under 21" will do anything but cause a person>>under 21 to click on it. We take a large chunk of the island on which>>those buildings you destroyed sat and pretend that it isn't a part of>>our country after all, let people fly into our airports that we want to>>kill, drive them in limousines to speak against us on this "pretend>>territory" land, let them drive back to our airport, and let them fly>>them back home without a scratch. We sell hot dogs in packages of ten>>and the buns in packages of eight. We can't even decide if pitchers>>should have to bat for themselves or not. All those baseball fields>>we've got. And none of them are even remotely the same size.>>>>We gave millions of dollars to a guy that told us that God was going to>>kill him if he didn't raise enough money. When he didn't get enough>>money, he didn't die. So we gave him more money in celebration of the>>fact that God didn't make him die. We've managed to keep the formulas>>for Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken secret for decades, we encrypt>>the most banal communications on our Information Superhighway, and yet>>we given away our most important nuclear secrets to the Chinese and>>Russians at the drop of a hat. And yet, with all this on the A-1 Psycho>>balance sheet, you still think you're more nuts than us that this won't>>result in your complete and utter annihilation? One way or another, your>>way of life will be over, period.>>>>Freedom's kind of a crazy, kooky, nutty thing when you look really close>>at it and all the bizarre and loony things that can result from it, but>>it's better than any other ideas anybody else has come up with. It's>>been that way since 1776, and built to last no matter how insanely we>>try to screw it up on a daily basis. We are even so nuts and ruthless>>enough as a nation to start insanely tearing at those of ourselves that>>even remotely resemble you in such rancorous, deplorable, and angry ways>>that will make you wonder if Allah has enough glue to piece enough of>>you back together for a flesh paperweight in Paradise.>>>>We may not know where you are now, but when we do I guarantee you that>>the majority of our high school children will still have no idea where>>on the globe where you are or where you will end up being buried. But>>we will send them anyway, and we will allow those of them that went into>>the armed services because they didn't manage to get into college>>*still* rain down Hell and fire on your worthless hides. It will all>>come down on you, because we're nuts enough to give all four of our>>branches of military services extremely powerful and deadly aircraft>>even though only one of them is actually called the Air Force. Picking>>a fight with the most insane nation on Earth with the hope that your>>message and influence will spread throughout the world, well, that's>>just downright stupid.
[ 11-16-2001: Message edited by: rat ]
